Cameron Crowe Quotes
We used music in the film to create an environment. It made it feel like we were telling our story with a little extra -- a little extra soul.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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We used music in the film to create an environment. It made it feel like we were telling our story with a little extra -- a little extra soul.
